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title: The prince took this advice, and spent the rest of the day filling t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince took this advice, and spent the rest of the day filling the fifty jars, and fearing lest the precious talisman might slip from his arm and be lost again, he took the precaution of putting it in one of the jars, on which he made a mark so as to be able to recognise it. Who acts: prince, fe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 79

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The prince took this advice, and spent the rest of the day filling the fifty jars, and fearing lest the precious talisman might slip from his arm and be lost again, he took the precaution of putting it in one of the jars, on which he made a mark so as to be able to recognise it.

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**Who acts:** prince, fearing, precaution, mark · **What happens:** take, spend, fill, fear, slip, lose · **To what, where:** advice, rest, fifty jars, precaution, mark

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, fearing, precaution, mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:26:79
# text = The prince took this advice, and spent the rest of the day filling the fifty jars, and fearing lest the precious talisman might slip from his arm and be lost again, he took the precaution of putting it in one of the jars, on which he made a mark so as to be able to recognise it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	talisman	talisman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	precaution	precaution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
58	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the prince | this advice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | past | the prince *not said here* | the rest of the day |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | the fifty jars |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |
| 4 | **fear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | lest the precious talisman | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **slip** | might | fearing |  |  |  |  | from Prince's arm | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from arm=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **lose** | infinitive · passive | fearing *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
| 7 | **take** | past | Prince | the precaution |  |  |  | in one of the jars | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent precaution=Value in one=Location |
| 8 | **put** | gerund | the precaution *not said here* | precaution |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 9 | **make** | past | Prince | a mark |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Product |
| 10 | **is** | to-infinitive | a mark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | a mark *not said here* | mark |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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